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Rethinking preferences
I started wondering just exactly when I’d become so particular about everything!
“I’ll have a pot of Chamomile tea with three lemon wedges—not slices—and some of that green sweetener.”
As I overheard a woman at the next table give the waiter this detailed request, it reminded me of some of my own preferences, which I quickly realized were not inconsiderable in number. I noted, for instance, that I preferred dark chocolate to milk chocolate, cashmere to wool, large dogs to small, tennis to basketball—my mental list kept growing and growing. Next, I started wondering just exactly when I’d become so particular about everything!

March 8, 2021 issue
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The vital choice
Larissa Snorek
Keeping Watch
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The truth about trials
Judith Hardy Olson
Keeping Watch
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Rethinking preferences
Chris Jones
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No dust on your halo
Alison J. Hughes
Image and Inspiration
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Image and Inspiration
Steve Ryf
Kids
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A song can be a prayer
Emma Kieran Schaefer
Healings
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Burn healed and singing voice recovered
Joy Able
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Child healed of asthma
Goldy Bajaj
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Knee injury healed
Mari Carmen Feijoo
Bible Lens
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Substance
March 8-14, 2021
From our readers
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Letters & Conversations
Miko Burfitt, Colleen Eitermann, Whitney Gerhard